TheBig3

he only listens to sea chanties is what I heard

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The Unfan

Well with a list like that I'm not too surprised.

Janszoon

lol

FireInCairo

most of those genres bore me to tears...
the only good punk band from the USA outside of new york i can think of off the top of my head is black flag...
im not bagging new york
my statement was limited to the rest of america which seems intent on producing ****ty hippie throwback music, corporate rock radio, insipid country, and horrendous hip hop.

of course there are exceptions
just not heaps...

and what is zydeco??


and with regards to my listening of sea shanties....what you got against sea shanties???
haha

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ProggyMan

You must have really limited taste.

FireInCairo

no not at all
the world doesnt end in anglo land
i mean the stuff that really does it for me btw
there are plenty of exceptions and so one but on the whole not heaps that makes me fall down and die

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Demonoid

For me, most of the music i like from the US are quite experimental in nature.
You know, stuff like Kayo Dot, Zappa, Thinking Plague, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Mr. Bungle, Agalloch, Neurosis, Sonic Youth, maudlin of the Well, Spastic Ink etc.

There's also Death/Thrash metal which has produced consistently good bands.

I would also agree that there are a lot of good jazz stuff.

But, TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if someone gets bored of this list.
I do like some bands from those, but i can see how someone can get bored of it as well. Really, there are a LOT of generic/boring stuff from that list coming from the US.
This is from my point of view though...might not apply for anyone else.

Zer0

Jamaica should get a mention because reggae and ska took over the world. Not bad for a small island!

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Janszoon

Wow. You just completely dismiss genres as broad as jazz with the wave of a hand. That's realy something.

How about Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Seven Seconds, X, Fear, Flipper, The Misfits, etc., etc.

Well, talking about American music without including New York is like talking UK music without including London, but here's a heap of American artists that aren't from New York for you:

An Albatross
Big Black
Book of Knots
Busdriver
Dalek
Death
Devo
Dillenger Escape Plan
DRI
Dropkick Murphys
Earth
The Faint
Flaming Lips
Fugazi
Jane's Addiction
David Garza
Grandaddy
Husker Du
Kill Me Tomorrow
Land of the Loops
Lightning Bolt
The Locust
Los Lobos
Madlib
Taj Mahal
Man Man
Mastodon
Mates of State
Matmos
The MC5
Mirah
The Modern Lovers
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Lif
Need New Body
Neurosis
Pelican
Pig Destoyer
The Pixies
Iggy Pop
Racebannon
REM
Rocket from the Crypt
Scratch Acid
Secret Chiefs 3
Slayer
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Social Distortion
Sunn 0)))
Tortoise
Trans Am
Tom Waits
Wall of Voodoo
Ween
Gary Wilson
Stevie Wonder


Wikipedia is your friend.

Janszoon

It's a very broad list of genres. For someone to be bored of all the genres I listed is to be bored of the overwhleming majority of English language music of the past 50 years.